Divine Providence, Or, The Three Cycles of Revelation: Showing the Parallelism of the Patriarchal, Jewish, and Christian Dispensations : Being a New Evidence of the Divine Origin of ChristianityJames Duncan, 1834 - 627 pages |
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... conceive that chance has had any thing to do with the sub- ject . The most startling contradiction of the order of nature could not present a stronger diffi- culty , than the supposition that this connection was the work of casualty ...
... conceive that chance has had any thing to do with the sub- ject . The most startling contradiction of the order of nature could not present a stronger diffi- culty , than the supposition that this connection was the work of casualty ...
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... conceive a chain of causes which leads us at last to one great universal cause ' : - a self - existent Being , the origin of all faculties and power ; and this Being we call God . Thus far the mind might advance by the mere view of ...
... conceive a chain of causes which leads us at last to one great universal cause ' : - a self - existent Being , the origin of all faculties and power ; and this Being we call God . Thus far the mind might advance by the mere view of ...
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... conceive , that we have yet reached the limit of this knowledge . Nothing is more conformable to the Divine agency , than the gradual illustration of truth according to human fitness for the discovery . The man who studies Scripture ...
... conceive , that we have yet reached the limit of this knowledge . Nothing is more conformable to the Divine agency , than the gradual illustration of truth according to human fitness for the discovery . The man who studies Scripture ...
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... conceive this process of instruction limited by the existence of the mate- rial universe . It is of the nature of intellect to be in a constant condition for the increase of its ideas . Scripture distinctly predicts , at least , one ...
... conceive this process of instruction limited by the existence of the mate- rial universe . It is of the nature of intellect to be in a constant condition for the increase of its ideas . Scripture distinctly predicts , at least , one ...
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... conceive of Deity , only that the ideas of all things , ever formed , or to be formed , are present to his contemplation , and that the successive universes can only be disclosures of that contemplation , divine thoughts . made ...
... conceive of Deity , only that the ideas of all things , ever formed , or to be formed , are present to his contemplation , and that the successive universes can only be disclosures of that contemplation , divine thoughts . made ...
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Page 25 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years : 15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth : and it was so.
Page 186 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page xi - And when he had opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of them that were slain for the word of God, and for the testimony which they held : and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth...
Page 515 - And the seventh angel sounded ; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ ; and he shall reign for ever and ever...
Page 262 - And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.
Page 550 - But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
Page 164 - For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Page 132 - And God said, Behold I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed ; to you it shall be for meat.
Page 400 - And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them ; there remained not so much as one of them.